100 Greatest African Americans
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of the one hundred historically greatest African Americans, as assessed by scholar Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
Asante does not rank the historical figures. Asante consciously omits some contemporary celebritries, who he did not consider notable enough for a historical list.
List
- Hank Aaron
- Ira Aldridge
- Muhammad Ali
- Richard Allen
- Marian Anderson
- Maya Angelou
- Arthur Ashe
- Crispus Attucks
- James Baldwin
- Benjamin Banneker
- Amiri Baraka
- Romare Bearden
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Guion Bluford
- Arna Bontemps
- Edward W. Brooke
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Blanche K. Bruce
- Ralph Bunche
- George Washington Carver
- Shirley Chisholm
- Kenneth B. Clark
- John Henrik Clarke
- John Coltrane
- Bill Cosby
- Alexander Crummell
- Countee Cullen
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
- Martin R. Delany
- Frederick Douglass
- Charles Drew
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Katherine Dunham
- Duke Ellington
- James Forten
- John Hope Franklin
- Maulana Karenga
- Henry Highland Garnet
- Marcus Garvey
- Prince Hall
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Dorothy Height
- Matthew Henson
- Charles Houston
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Jesse Jackson
- Mae Jemison
- Jack Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson
- John H. Johnson
- Percy Julian
- Ernest Just
- Maulana Karenga
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Edmonia Lewis
- Alain Locke
- Joe Louis
- Thurgood Marshall
- Benjamin E. Mays
- Elijah McCoy
- Claude McKay
- Oscar Micheaux
- Dorie Miller
- Garrett Morgan
- Toni Morrison
- Elijah Muhammad
- Jesse Owens
- Rosa Parks
- Adam Clayton Powell
- Colin Powell
- A. Philip Randolph
- Hiram Revels
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- John Russwurm
- Arturo Schomburg
- Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
- Mary Church Terrell
- William Monroe Trotter
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Kwame Ture
- Henry McNeal Turner
- Nat Turner
- David Walker
- Madame C. J. Walker
- Booker T. Washington
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Phillis Wheatley
- Walter F. White
- Roy Wilkins
- Daniel Hale Williams
- August Wilson
- Oprah Winfrey
- Tiger Woods
- Carter G. Woodson
- Richard Wright
- Malcolm X